Wings Quotes - page 4

Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream. (William Cowper)
His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
When by habit a man cometh to have a bargaining soul, its wings are cut, so that it can never soar. It bindeth reason an apprentice to gain, and instead of a director, maketh it a drudge. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Even when the bird walks we see that it has wings. View quote
Antoine-Marin Lemierre
If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them. View quote
Jack Welch
Since I have spread my wings to purpose high, The more beneath my feet the clouds I see, The more I give the winds my pinions free, Spurning the earth and soaring to the sky. View quote
Giordano Bruno
Lord knows why they depict death with wings when death is everywhere. View quote
José Saramago
To the stars, on the wings of a pig. View quote
John Steinbeck
People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it. View quote
Stephen King
Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down. View quote
Ray Bradbury
Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down. (Ray Bradbury)
The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. View quote
Douglas Adams
God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one. View quote
Rumi
You knock at the door of Reality. You shake your thought wings, loosen your shoulders, and open. View quote
Rumi
You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life? View quote
Rumi
Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness. View quote
Rumi
Every word is a messenger. Some have wings; some are filled with fire; some are filled with death. View quote
Mary Oliver
Words are mighty, words are living: Serpents with their venomous stings, Or bright angels, crowding round us, With heaven's light upon their wings: Every word has its own spirit, True or false, that never dies; Every word man's lips have uttered Echoes in God's skies. View quote
Adelaide Anne Procter
I acknowledge the Furies. I believe in them. I have heard the disastrous beating of their wings. View quote
Theodore Dreiser
The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day; But on the ground, among the hooting crowds, He cannot walk, his wings are in the way. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts. (Anzia Yezierska)
Every time a good child dies, an angel of God comes down to earth. He takes the child in his arms, spreads out his great white wings, and flies with it all over the places the child loved on earth. The angel plucks a large handful of flowers, and they carry it with them up to God, where the flowers bloom more brightly than they ever did on earth. View quote
Hans Christian Andersen
For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast. View quote
Lord Byron
The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer's shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window. View quote
Charles Dickens
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe